Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-09-15
DAKOTA NEWSPAPERS.
Opinions Upon Current Topics Edi.
iorially Expressed by Terri
toriaI Scribes.

SSOh aatohs 0Rt0S Lht-
iorially Expressed by Terri
toriaI Scribes.
Huron Huronite: It is not strange
that the Christian women of Dakota are
proud OF the leadership OF Mrs. Hslen
Barker. IL h Is not u noble woman
then, az the counteIfeit detector would
say, she 10 well intended to deceIve."
Her brief. acknowledgement, this morn
ing, when notified of her reelection as
president of the Dakota union, was O
gem of oratory fit to go beslde the ut.
terance OF Llncoln ct Gettysburg. Pos
sibly pine haven't the intellectual
grasp necessary for great public affairs,
but Mrs. Barker would make a good
governor of the state OF south Dakota,
snd-the world does move.
Gary Inter. State: Those interested
secured names enough to the petition
presented to the board last Monday to
warrant the supervisors to call an cleo
ton in November on the local option
question, and the election, therefore,
will be called, III the measure carries
we want to see the friends OF che move
nent enforce the law to the letter. Will
lend them ell the assistance in our power
to accomplish that end. But we are not
i'll favor Of the movement and are CON
fdent that OF local option carries in
Deuel. county this fall it will be to the
dstriment of the county, as IL will be
practically impossible to enforce the law
under the present state of circumstances
The petition was secured by the merest
scratch and untold hard work, and
hundreds of names signed to it will vote
the other way when an opportunity
offers. Oar county is tooevenly divid-
ed at this time to successfully enforce
local prohibition and those whc are now
30 sangulne OF success will see it too be-
fore the question IS finslly settled.
GRAND Forks Herald: Gen. Hugh j..
Campbell, of Yankton, opened the divi-
sion campaign OF Milbank last night, by
delivering a powerful speech on the
subject OF division. He reviewed the
situation in every detail, and made an
argument in favor Of two states that is
absolutely u~nanswerable.
Watertown Public Opinion. The mean,
insinuatipg, contemplate alur upon
Col PIummer by the 81. Paul Globe ie
unworthy the columns of the Police
Gazette, much less the publicity given in
a newspaper having some claims to re-
spectability. When a paper reaches
the degrading depth Of lending their
influence to pull q man down who iB try
ing to reform, or to try and belittle o
man because he has reformed il is about
time such q concern was abated as a
public nuisance. Whatever Dol. Plum.
mer may have been in the past, il mat
ters not, so long as he has seen the folly
of a wasted life, and had the courage and
the manhood to forsake the path he was
treading, and if possible to prevent
others, by his voice and his pen, from
following the 81 me downward course.
The man who could write such an article
goes not possess tbe moral courage 10
reform. What Dakota wants is more
Dol. Planners and fewer ST. Paul
Globes.
Tyndall Tribune: Two columns OF
anti-divIsion rant in the Dakota edition
of the Pioneer Press of last Saturday,
by Quinn. of the Bismarck Tribune, fails
to prove anything but that the writer it
opposed, strongly opposed to division
and United States senators. The great
anxiety of some residents in north Da-
kota to tie to tho south raises o sus-
picion that they have not very much
confidence in their part of the territory
and want to be sure OF a perpetual part
nership with south. That seems to be
the idea back of Mr.. Quinn's rhetorical
outburst.
Milbsnk Review: Hon. Hugh J.
Campbell, the great apostle and ex-
FOUNDER of division and south Dakota
statehood, addressed the citizens of Mil.
bank on Tuesday afternoon. Mr.. Camp
bell is probably the best posted speak or
upon this particular subject in the terri
tory, and his speech was very ettentively
listened TO.
Armour Tribune: Gov. Church has
issued in pamphlet form his much talk.
ed about examination of the trustees of
the Yankton insane asylum, as made by
public examiner O. N. Harris. For
sexeral months the governor and a few
OF his political associates have given ont
that the trustees of that public institu.
tion have misspprcpriated money be-
longing to the asylum. The charge is
disputed by the trustees, who assert
that they are willing and ready to show
up. and to be investigated before the
proper tribunal; and Gov. Church and
his strikers have been, challenged time
and again to institute legal proceedings
against the accused, or bring suit tor
the mount that the charge claims
the trustees to be in detault. This
public demand they have entirely avoid.
sd; now this pamphlet. issued by
what Official authority the public knows
not. The document bears no Imprint
save that of democratic partyism.
YIN hall VnHa~s Tha rrarH EnvnN ~ n
"camp'a at Huron ,s over and the 80
per day militia il wondering what the
whole thing was about anyway. AS a
review it didn't amount to o picayune-r
out as q picnic where q few of the boys
had q $40, GOO blowouti il was voted quite
a success. Let's everybody ''milishnl
ing interest on $50 900, which now lies
idle in the territorial treasury. The
accumulated interest amounts to about
1880 and the prospects are shat 1t will
amount to several thousand before il is
expended 81 the law directs. This
money was appropriated ty the legisla-
ture for the purpose Of eplarging the
Yankton insane asylum, but Governor
Church refuseI to allow the money to be
used until the present BOARD OF trusteel
resign, and their places are filed b,
others. The governor is virtually rob.
blpg the people of the interest which ii
daily accommodating by his refusal: he il
deprivipg the unfortunate insane Of th,
benefits and comforts OF the home which
the legislature intended for them ant
is violating the spirit OF the law. The
people have o Just right TO complain
They are paying $40 interest on thu
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